Salty Snacks: Enjoy our tortilla chips, potato chips, and delicious mixes like the famous Conga Mix. A salty flavor you won’t be able to stop snacking on!

Sweet Snacks: For those with a sweet tooth, we have products like alborotos and candies with tamarind. The perfect combination of flavor and tradition!

Spicy Snacks: If you're a fan of spice, don't miss out on our options with hot sauce and spicy salsas. From elotitos to churritos, we have what you need to satisfy your heat cravings.

Mexican Snacks: Taste authentic Mexican snacks with our Doritos and elotitos. The flavors of Mexico delivered straight to your home!

Mixes and Combinations: Looking for something unique? Try our special blends like Conga Mix and Alguashte, traditional from countries like Honduras and El Salvador. A journey of flavors from all across Latin America in one place!

Hispanic Latin American snacks have their origin in a rich blend of indigenous culinary traditions, colonial influences, and the adaptation of local ingredients over the centuries.

Indigenous Influence: The indigenous peoples of Latin America were the first to discover and cultivate many of the essential ingredients that would later be used in preparing hispanic snacks. Corn is the main example, as it was cultivated and consumed by cultures such as the Aztecs and Mayans long before the arrival of European colonizers. Tortillas, tamalitos, and other corn-based products were essential to the daily diet and, over time, evolved into tortilla chips, elotes, and other traditional snacks.

Colonial Influence: With the arrival of European colonizers, especially the Spanish, cooking ingredients and techniques began to merge with local products. Spices such as chile, pepper, cumin, and the use of oils and flours led to new ways of preparing foods that didn't exist before. This fusion of European and indigenous ingredients resulted in some of the most popular snacks in the region, like potato chips, hot sauce, and a variety of mixes and flavors that would define future generations of hispanic snacks.

New Needs: Hispanic snacks also emerged as a response to the fast-paced life in Latin American cities. This gave rise to the popularity of potato chips, tortilla chips, and candies like alborotos (candies coated with chile and sugar), which combined sweet and spicy, a characteristic widely present in Latin cuisine.

Each flavor and ingredient has its own narrative, and knowing these stories can make you appreciate the snacks you enjoy even more.

Corn- The Origin of Many Snacks: It’s the heart and soul of many of the most popular hispanic snacks in Latin America. It was one of the first crops domesticated by indigenous civilizations like the Aztecs and Mayans. The indigenous peoples not only used it to feed their communities but also in religious ceremonies. With the arrival of European colonizers, corn became a fundamental ingredient in various dishes, transforming into a key component of snacks like tortilla chips and elotes.

The Spicy Flavor: Chile has been used since pre-Columbian times, not only for its flavor but also for its medicinal properties. It is known that chile contains capsaicin, a compound responsible for the spiciness, which has multiple health benefits. These benefits include:

Boosting metabolism: Capsaicin helps accelerate metabolism and can assist in burning calories.

Pain relief: Capsaicin is used in topical creams to alleviate muscle and joint pain.

Improving blood circulation: Chile also has properties that improve circulation and can help prevent heart problems.

African and European Influence: During the colonial era, the ingredients and culinary techniques of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous peoples merged. For example, potato chips originated in : Europe but were adapted by Latin Americans, who combine them with hot sauce, lime, and salt to create what we now know as papas fritas. This fusion of cultures resulted in many of the snacks we enjoy today, blending flavors from different parts of the world.

Sweets with Tamarind: Tamarind is another fascinating ingredient that has given rise to traditional sweets like alborotos and candies with tamarind. This fruit, originally from Africa and brought to Latin America during the colonial era, adapted perfectly to the Latin palate. Its sweet and sour flavor forms the base of many sweet snacks and is found in everything from candies to sauces and drinks.